London: Commemorative windows unveiled at Manor House

Four doves in top window by Jamie Clarke. Image Alessandro Romano

A beautiful series of stained glass windows has been unveiled recently at St Thomas More Church in Manor House, north London.

Parish Priest Fr Clive Lee told ICN: "The original window frame was donated in thanksgiving for his life by Moses Soyode, a parishioner who lost an eye when a bomb exploded on a bus in central London on 7th July 2005.

The new stained glass windows, over the glass frame, commemorate those who died from Covid. They was given in thanks for all those working in the NHS during in 2019-21 pandemic.

The four doves descending in the top window, represent the message of peace, joy, hope and justice, contained in the four Gospels. One of the doves has an olive branch in its beak, a sign of peace and reaching safety from the story of Noah and the Ark in Genesis 8.11. The ascending dove represents the Holy Spirit within each of us, as our souls respond to the Gospel. As it soars upwards there is a hint of a rainbow symbolising the covenant established between God and humanity, again from Genesis 9.13.

The window was designed by artist Jamie Clark. The purple glass was manufactured in Birmingham, in the last remaining stained glass factory in the country whilst the rest of the glass was manufactured in Germany."

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St Thomas More Church, Manor House - https://parish.rcdow.org.uk/manorhouse/
Jamie Clark on Twitter - https://mobile.twitter.com/jamieclark1979